In a nutshell: Obsidian, the developer behind some of the best RPGs of all time, is being sued. A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the Fallout: New Vegas maker over allegations that it violated California wage and hour laws.

The case, Victoria Turner v. Obsidian Entertainment, was originally filed in Orange County Superior Court in October 2025. It appears to have gone largely unnoticed until

First look: The AI hardware discussion has centered on GPUs for so long that CPUs can feel like an afterthought. Intel and AMD are now trying to tilt that balance back, at least a bit, with a new CPU-focused specification. The effort signals that both companies still see room for CPUs to play a bigger role in certain kinds of machine learning workloads.

The specification , called Advanced Compute Extensions, or ACE

A hot potato: Things aren't going well for Xbox right now. With the massive changes, studios closing, and the future of the brand itself being questioned, Game Pass has also found itself under the spotlight. According to the director of the Ori games, the subscription service would be much more successful if studios weren't incentivized to "slop out mediocre content like a factory."

Xbox is going through

TL;DR: Google is pushing its in-house AI chips much more aggressively, turning years of tensor processing unit development into a direct challenge to Nvidia's hold on the AI hardware market. For years, the company built its chips mostly to handle its internal workloads. Those tensor processing units, or TPUs, sat behind products like search and speech recognition, handling some of the company's heavier AI workloads

In a nutshell: YouTuber TrashBench has once again shown off an unconventional cooling system for your PC hardware. On this occasion, he used an ice machine to cool an RTX 3060 – and it worked remarkably well. In Cyberpunk 2077 alone, the system dropped GPU temps by around 38°C.

The experiment was inspired by MrYeester, another YouTuber who recently built a CPU cooling loop around

Looking ahead: Two quiet moves – one from EA, one from Ultima's creator – could end up reshaping what the series looks like in the years ahead. Electronic Arts recently filed new trademarks tied to Ultima, the long-running RPG series it acquired in 1992 and has mostly left dormant since. The filings don't point to a specific project, but they do show EA is still actively

A hot potato: Remember the excitement in the build-up to Cyberpunk 2077's release? CD Projekt Red had whipped the gaming world into a frenzy, only for it to become one of the biggest disappointments of all time. Not everyone thinks the studio has fully redeemed itself in the six years since then, including co-CEO Michał Nowakowski, but he believes those fans will be won back

The takeaway: New research is challenging a basic assumption about espresso: that it has to be made with hot water. Instead of relying on near-boiling water, researchers have shown that high-frequency sound waves can produce an espresso-style shot with similar strength and taste – no heat required.

Developed by engineers and food scientists at UNSW Sydney, this new method is called "ultrasonic espresso" and replaces heat with